Ben had his viva at the end of last week, and performed exceptionally well! A perfect way to end his PhD, and a very good reason to end the week on a high note with cake, fizz and celebrations!
Here Ben is celebrating with Simon Hall (internal examiner), Charl and Uwe Bunz (external examiner). More photos of the celebrations to follow! Well done Ben!
Congrats to Sheue-Lin (who recently completed her MSc with the BCFN, with her research project done in the group)! Her family (and friend!) celebrated with her! Well done Sheue-Lin!
After a great Christmas, we are off to a good start for 2017. The famous “Rough Guides” have very recently voted Bristol as one of the top 10 cities in the world to visit (No. 4!).
This just confirms what we know already – Bristol is a great place to live and work in! In addition, a number of local restaurants have appeared in The Guardian’s “The 50 best breakfast places in the UK“.
Carl had passed his viva today, and we can now finally call him Dr Hu! Well done Carl! His external examiner was Prof. Bo Laursen, from the University of Copenhagen, and internal was Dr George Whittell.
Celebrations already started, and will continue later in the day! Congratulations!
Time flies, and we had our annual Christmas lunch at Charl & Jacqueline’s home! Great food, great company, fantastic “Secret Santa” presents, and some great games!
We also had a Christmas Quiz – with two tasty prizes! What a way to prepare for Christmas!
In order to welcome all new group members, and just to get to know each other a bit better, we went to one of our favourite restaurants again … Cosmo!
As usual, the quality (and quantity!) of food was excellent! Unfortunately not everyone could join in, but this means that we will just have to go soon again!
Charl had his birthday recently, and we celebrated with friends, former group members and colleagues, and consumed lots of cake!
Here Charl and the group with some evidence of cake still left!
It was with a heavy heart that we all said goodbye to Wei, as she headed back to Xi’an after a year in the FRG. It was great to have her around as a visitor from the Xi’an Jiaotong University. We said goodbye in the traditional fashion – with pizza, and lovely cakes (made by Maha)!
We look forward to catch up with Wei – in Xi’an as we continue to collaborate, or hopefully back here in Bristol!
It was high time for the Faul Research Group (and friends) to have a social get together again! We made use of the fantastic (late) summer weather, and had a wonderful BBQ in the gardens of BISC.
Great weather, great food and great company!
It was time again for the annual Bristol Balloon Fiesta, Europe’s largest balloon festival! It was a spectacular weekend of beautiful balloons and a festive atmosphere in Bristol! Several of the FRG group members joined in the fun – here some photos from them!
Please also see “The Guardian” newspaper’s photos here!
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